California’s high-speed rail may bring ‘valley of data centers’ (opens in new tab)

[archived: ] "One day, bullet trains could zip from a palm-lined street in Anaheim to the foot of Salesforce Tower in SoMa. Along the way, they may pass through a new kind of California landscape: vast acres of warehouses, all humming with servers. These buildings could be essential to the rail system’s survival. That’s the dystopian future that Visalia (Tulare County) resident Joseph Mello conjured when he addressed the High-Speed Rail Authority board on June 1. Mello said he had read the dr...